Word: monolog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loneliest of the dramatic arts is the monolog. It is unpopular with male performers, but a handful of U. S. actresses have developed it to a high degree of art within its narrow limits. So far this season, Monologists Ruth Draper and Cornelia Otis Skinner have visited Broadway. Last week Manhattan theatregoers had a chance to witness the work of another capable theatrical lone wolf. She was Helen Howe...
...persuasively told, so well mounted is Now and Forever that its old tricks seem almost new. In a slightly different combination are to be found the ingredients which in Little Miss Marker made dimpled, piping Shirley Temple a national sensation. When Shirley holds a monolog with an imaginary person whom she addresses as "Mr. Cosgrove," when she gives herself parlor airs as a rival of her "new mother" for her father's attention, when she cheats a contemporary out of a pair of roller skates, she further validates her growing place as the sprightliest cinema prodigy since Jackie Coogan. Good...
...without rhyme or reason. From bed to sofa he rambled. The family pulled down the shades to shield him from the neighbors. The folks tried to catch some sense from what he chattered. His voice became shrill, raspy, hurried. "Cigarets should never be taxed in Ohio," ran his monolog. "When I was a boy, Joe and I used to go swimming together. Now he thinks cigarets should be taxed. . . . Sometimes I believe that Joe doesn't realize how hard it is to be a truck driver in Columbus. But I'm not getting any better. . . . The radio seemed nice last...
...David are drowned in a storm and he finds the sunken boat with their trapped bodies.) Next few days Gather spends in trying to keep drunk; he ends up in the room of a friend who is an amateur psychoanalyst, keeps him up all night by his brilliantly unhappy monolog. When he comes to, next evening, Gather feels better about things: he meets his wife at a concert, lays the groundwork of a reconciliation, and goes off to Duxbury by himself to think everything over. The Author, like his hero and unlike many of his death-possessed colleagues...
...with Parisians because they rarely performed his music to his liking, or did not trouble to perform it at all. Berlioz blared out his indignations as he did much of his music. When a French editor undertook to improve on one of Beethoven's symphonies. Berlioz introduced a monolog into his Lelio cursing out all such desecrators: "They are like the vulgar birds that swarm in our public gardens and perch arrogantly on the most beautiful statues; and when they have fouled the forehead of Jupiter, the arm of Hercules, or the bosom of Venus, strut about with...